Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 14
Ndere, however, was not afraid, and eat the fish, which she found to be good food, and the soup was very sweet.
Who acts: Ndere, fish, soup · What happens: not be, eat, find, be · To what, where: fish, good food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ndere, fish, soup), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ndere | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 afraid | advmod |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 eat | cc |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 afraid | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eat | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 found | nsubj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fish | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 food | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 food | cop |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 food | amod |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sweet | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sweet | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 soup | det |
| 24 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sweet | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sweet | cop |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 sweet | advmod |
| 27 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 afraid | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Ndere | afraid, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | Ndere not said here | the fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | past | the fish | Ndere nsubj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | good food | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the soup | sweet property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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